Emoticons

Everyone love emoticons and deviantART have an Emoticon Community, with a Community Volunteer (now SparklyDest) 

First of All, you can read this story about dA Emoticons : 

A (modern) history of dA emoticonsIntro
As you wander around deviantART pages, there is noticeably one art medium that invades almost every element of the site. Whether it is the deviantART galleries, journals, news section, comments, forums, chatrooms, avatars or even dA profiles, it is hard to find a spot that hasn't been infiltrated by a familiar set of small, coloured, pixel circles. The art form I am talking about is of course the emoticon and throughout the past 10 or so years they have been happily adopted by deviantART and its community.
Although emoticons can often be spotted on a wide range of other instant messengers (IMs) and social media sites, deviantART has come to house a unique branch of these miniature art pieces. Whilst the majority of these alternative sites opt for simple, predominately yellow emotes with a range of basic expressions, the art community here at dA have stretched the art form far beyond its natural boundaries and developed entirely new styles of emoticons

   

Emoticon Community has a lot of Masters, Stars and Unique Emoticonists!  

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Also Emoticon Community has own Awards! 

     

   

 

Don't forget to visit DeviantART on 12, May 2013! 
Why? Because it's an Emoticon Appreciation Day!  

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